Strawberry Salad

I am always on the lookout for great salads.  If I can't have dessert for dinner then a salad would be my next choice.  This salad recipe was handed out at Relief Society after a Stake Relief Society dinner.  I didn't taste it at the meeting but the strange sounding dressing caught my eye.  It is very easy to make and best eaten right after the dressing is poured on.

Strawberry Salad

Ingredients:

Salad:

Romaine Lettuce or Spring Mix
2 cups Strawberries sliced
1 pkg Bacon fried and crumbled
1 cup Cashews
¼ Purple Onion sliced or chopped

Dressing:

2 cups Mayonnaise
⅓ cup Half & Half
3 Tbs Raspberry Jam
¼ cup Rice Wine Vinegar or Raspberry Vinegar
⅓ cup Sugar
Poppy Seeds

Caramel Bugles

My daughter introduced me to these Caramel Bugles.  They are better then caramel popcorn and much like Lays potato chips, you can't eat just one!  It doesn't matter if the caramel get too hard or if the caramel is too soft they are still delicious.  Even Goldie Locks wouldn't complain.

Caramel Bugles

Ingredients:

1 cup Light Corn Syrup
2 cups Brown Sugar
1 cup Butter
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 lg bag Bugles

Directions:

Bring to boil for 5 to 6 minutes.  Pour over bugles and stir carefully until the caramel is covering all the bugles.

Raisin Cookies

I am getting ready for a trip to Yellowstone in our new trailer.  I love the outdoors and love it even more when the accommodations include the small things like running water, showers, air conditioning, heater, and sorry to say wi-fi and television.  I do hope we see some wild life in Yellowstone but if not we will be enjoy the relaxing time without a time clock. 

I always feel like I need to cook or bake something for our trips.  If must go back to the camping in a tent era when you had to take all the food required.  Even though we camping close to a town and walking distant to a restaurant I am still whipping up some goodies for the trip. 

One recipe I made is delectable raisin cookies.  The recipe follows.  I got this recipe when I worked at a local mall.  One of my co-worker's mother would bring these cookies in to work for us to share. 

Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup Butter
2 cups Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
5½ cups Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Nutmeg
½ tsp Salt
1 cup Sour Cream
2 cups Raisins
½ cup Sugar
1 tsp Cinnamon

Directions:

For filling: In small sauce pan boil raisins in enough water to cover.  Add sugar and cinnamon.  Thicken with small amount of water and corn startch.  Let cool.

For dough:  Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla.  In another bowl add together flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt.  Taking turns, mix dry ingredients and sour cream with the buter mixture.

Roll dough out.  Cut into circles.  Place one circle on cookie sheet top with about a teaspoon of filling then place another circle on top.  Secure edges.  Bake at 375˚ for 12 minutes or until done.